Willy Russell / Educating Rita

A play & film by Willy Russell.

Julie Walters and Michael Caine made this film unforgettable for me.

Dr. Frank Bryant: Sod them, eh, Rita! Sod them!
Rita: Will they sack you?
Frank: Good God no. That would involve making a decision. Pissed is all right. To get the sack, it would have to be rape on a grand scale. And not just with students, either. That would only amount to a slight misdemeanour. No, for dismissal it would have to be nothing less than buggering the Bursar.
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Rita: Have they sacked you?
Frank: I made rather a night of it last night so they're giving me a holiday. Two years in Australia.
Rita: Did you bugger the Bursar?
Frank: Metaphorically.
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Rita: And when I turned around, me mother had stopped singing, and she was crying. I said, "Why are you crying, Mother?" And she said, "There must be better songs to sing than this." And I thought, "Yeah."